National Historic Landmark · African-American museum · Atlanta, Georgia

Herndon Home

Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Built 1908 by Adrienne McNeil Herndon. Added to the National Register in 2000, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkBuilt 1908Listed 2000Neoclassical architectureAdrienne McNeil Herndon
Herndon Home July 2021 HDRHerndonHome
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What it is

Wikipedia · Herndon Home

The Herndon Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 587 University Place NW, in Atlanta, Georgia. An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon (1858-1927), a rags-to-riches success story who was born into slavery, but went on to become Atlanta's first black millionaire as founder and head of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. The house was designed by his wife Adrienne, and was almost entirely built with African-American labor. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000, and had previously been declared a "landmark building exterior" by the city of Atlanta in 1989.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
Address587 University Place, NW, Atlanta, GA
CountyFulton County
ListedFeb 16, 2000
Reference number00000261
Built1908
ArchitectAdrienne McNeil Herndon
Type of placeAfrican-American museum, cultural institution, historic house museum
StyleNeoclassical architecture
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources2 buildings

Visiting

Open to the public
Address587 University Place, NW, Atlanta, GA
Websiteherndonhome.org ↗
Coordinates33.75809, -84.40684 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitMartin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park · 2 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyPayne Campground-Allatoona Lake 27 mi · Galt'S Ferry Day Use Area (Ga) 29 mi · Victoria Campground 30 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 00000261. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.